[Raymond Penington Home Movies: Reel 8]

The Raymond Penington Home Movie Collection is a collection of 16mm colour and black-and-white films made between 1938 and 1965. Dr. Raymond Penington (born 1903) was a medical doctor from Melbourne, Victoria. He and his wife Edith lived in Papua New Guinea in the late 1920s before returning to Melbourne in 1931 and settling in Canterbury. They had three children, Margaret, Vivienne and Jocelyn. His home movies focus on family life in Melbourne and holidays in regional Victoria.

This film shows Dr Raymond Penington’s girls in the late 1930s and brief scenes of other members of the family.

While the film is focused around his three daughters the main theme throughout is the youngest daughter, Jocelyn Penington.

The film is located mainly in two places, the back yard at home and the beach, though there is a brief scene in the snow. It covers a short period as the girls grow up.

While a very personal film, of interest for a general viewer includes fashion of the time which includes all generations.

There is a scene which appears to be a birthday party where games of the time are being played such as statues.

Also seen is an old tricycle and scooter.

The film finishes as it started, with the family at the beach.

Selected highlights list:
00:00:02:00 Edith Penington and daughter Jocelyn at the beach
00:01:21:00 Jocelyn Penington shuffling on her bottom in the yard at home while her sisters, Margaret on a tricycle and Vivienne on a scooter, play around her
00:05:08:00 the women and girls play with a kitten in the yard
00:05:43:00 Margaret, Vivienne and Jocelyn Penington running around in swimwear through a sprinkler
00:06:12:00 Margaret, Vivienne and Jocelyn Penington playing ring a ring a rosy
00:06:39:00 Dr Raymond Penington playing ring a ring a rosy with his daughters
00:08:04:00 the Penington family in the snow
00:09:06:00 girls playing games in the back yard (possibly a birthday party)
00:10:42:00 a puppy and rabbit interacting with each other
00:11:47:00 Penington girls and their grandparents
00:14:50:00 Penington family at the beach